Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings can be a powerful solution to the problem of scarce resources. By removing the complexity of managing underlying infrastructure and development environments, they make it possible to write, test and deploy new applications fast and efficiently. Since speed to market is now a key competitive differentiator, PaaS is a choice that can deliver a market advantage. The …
Customers often ask about CPU steal time. Especially those that use the CPUs heavily and for whom it’s a key performance criteria. There are quite a few differences in the setup and behaviour of CPUs and cores between physical and virtual environments. Even between cloud providers there are setups differences that make like for like comparison on the face of …
The reality is that the vast majority of companies are going to need to adopt a hybrid cloud approach. Or to incorporate existing and new technologies and systems. But what is hybrid cloud really and what strategies should novice companies consider? I sat down for a Q&A and discussed hybrid cloud approaches with our partners IP Converge in Manila.This is …
We are happy to announce the ability to share infrastructure between accounts in a secure way. You can also define what actions you can take against those shared resources giving you fine grain control. This new functionality will allow you to share various sets of resources with one or more other accounts. We call each policy an Access Control List …
***This competition is now closed*** At CloudSigma we love good design when we see it and, with many of us on the road frequently, we also appreciate having a powerful phone at our fingertips. That’s why when we got hold of the latest OnePlus2 64GB edition and a couple of invites we immediately thought it would be fun to give …
Doubling your performance We recently underwent a major infrastructure upgrade to our cloud in Zurich. And we’ll be rolling out similar upgrades across all our locations through the rest of 2015. One of the key elements to that upgrade was moving away from AMD based processors to Intel ones. As CEO I wanted to take this opportunity to write to …
One of the greatest advantages of being the CEO at CloudSigma is the opportunity to discuss with customers how they are using their cloud deployments across the wide range of industries. I learn so much from these customer insights. Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with many of our customers to share some of the insights …
I was recently invited to speak at DevTalks in Cluj, Romania. It proved to be an amazing even with loads of great speakers and topics. Well worth considering attending for any developers out there. I gave a talk on the root causes of outages and service disruption from our five years of experience running the CloudSigma cloud locations and some …
We want to be able to support smaller customers who like our approach to cloud and want to get started. That’s how we came up with the concept of bundling a package of free resources for every paying CloudSigma customer. What’s behind the Free Resource Tier? The free tier is live across most of our cloud locations* so if you …
Sometimes running computing infrastructure can feel a little like that lizard running on water and all too often a callback to 2010 and the Liquid Mountaineering team! That’s why we’ve continued our strategy of giving customers a virtual data center to manage their cloud infrastructure easily. Giving you full control and flexibility over your computing by focusing on improving our …
Timely Partnership, due to Rackspace’s Move Away from IaaS, Gives Customers Seamless Migration Capabilities alongside High Availability Options for an Always-On Infrastructure Zurich, Switzerland & Mumbai, India – September 9, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, and CloudLeap, a cloud migration and high availability SaaS company, today announced a partnership that will allow …
One of the things I love most about my job is the sheer variety of customers that we have. It gives me the opportunity to speak with business owners and managers from all walks of life and sectors of the economy. From processing satellite data for the European Space Agency, to running simulated trading environments for Deutsche Boerse, or providing …
